community forest

community forest

by Melisa Tien


tickets on sale april 30 (arbor day)

SOLD OUT!

online welcome & orientation: may 14, 1PM EST

zoom link will be sent the day before to all ticket buyers

Purchase the Experience

more about the project

Community Forest brings together participants from all over the country in the rearing and care of live trees (both miniature and life-sized), and simultaneously connects participants through a living document whose growth they will also be gently contributing to. Read the FAQ's here.

details for participation

With your ticket, you will receive one plant in the mail, and an invitation to Community Forest’s online welcome and orientation. For each ticket and plant that you purchase, someone who cannot afford to participate but wishes to, will also receive a plant and an invitation.


Community Forest is an ongoing project that lasts the life of your plant. Your participation includes the care and nurturing of your plant, and periodic contributions (~four times a year) to a shared online document that tells us how everyone’s plant is doing and how everyone’s year is going.


Have questions? Please visit the project FAQ page.

lead artist /creator

Melisa Tien is a playwright, lyricist, librettist, and producer.  She is the author of the plays BEST LIFE, THE BOYD SHOW, YELLOW CARD RED CARD, and FAMILIUM VULGARE, co-author of the music-theater works SWELL, DAYLIGHT SAVING, and MARY, and co-producer of the audio series ACTIVE LISTENING. A New Dramatists resident playwright, Melisa is a recipient of a grant from the NYC Women’s Fund for Media, Music, and Theatre, a commissionee of the Ensemble Studio Theatre/Sloan Project, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Playwriting/Screenwriting. She teaches experimental theatrical writing at Sarah Lawrence College. BA, UCLA; MFA, Columbia University. www.melisatien.com.
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